From the Wires
Pennsylvania Union Leaders Plan a DAY OF ACTION
Jul. 9, 2009 04:15 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 8 Pennsylvania unions have joined together to form a coalition against payless paydays.
Leaders from SEIU, UFCW, PSCOA, SEIU Health Care PA, PSEA, FOSCEP, OPEIU and AFSCME have organized a 'DAY OF ACTION' for Tuesday, July 14. During lunch breaks state employees will hold demonstrations outside of their work sites. Workers in and around the capitol complex will take part in a 12 p.m. rally and press conference outside the capitol. Unions are also encouraging employees to flood the phone lines and emails of the governor and legislators that day.
"Enough is enough," said David R. Fillman, Executive Director for Council 13 AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, "For 7 years a budget hasn't been passed on time. Every year it's a political tug of war and state employees are tired of being the rope. While elected officials get thousands of dollars of per diem and expenses during the impasse, our folks who come to work and do their job won't be paid at all? It's more than wrong, it's disgusting." AFSCME Council 13 represents more than 45,000 state employees.
"We're tired of the Governor's smokescreens. He doesn't care about our members, and he doesn't care about the people we serve. The bottom line is that our members work hard every day to serve the neediest and most vulnerable of our state's citizens. And then, because the Governor and legislators don't do their jobs, our members won't get paid. What we need is a budget that fully funds public services and stop gap legislation to assure that state employees are paid - and we need it NOW!" said Kathy Jellison, Pres., Service Employees International Union, Local 688.
Kathy Jellison
President SEIU Local 688
www.seiu668.org
Wendell W. Young, IV
President UFCW Local 1776
www.ufcw1776.org
Percy Poindexter
Vice-Pres. PSCOA
www.pscoa.org
Marc Kornfeld
Uniserv Representative PSEA
www.psea.org
Stephen Fisher
President FOSCEP
www.foscep.org
Kim Patterson
Sec.-Treas. SEIU Health Care PA
www.seiuhealthcarepa.org
Mary Rita DuVall Quinn, MILR
Assoc. Dir. OPEIU Health Care PA
www.opeiu.org
SOURCE AFSCME Council 13
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